Powers should be devolved to ‘beefed up’ health and wellbeing boards to bolster and consolidate leadership and governance, the former president of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE) has argued.
Mark Rogers, who is also Birmingham City Council’s chief executive, said boards needed to get leadership and governance right before focus shifted to the ‘usual suspects’ of prevention, early help, integration, innovation and money.
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